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Sen Obama fooled young, progressive activists into supporting him. When he achieved the delegate strength he needed, he reversed himself on firmly declared positions: FISA, prosecuting telecom criminals, coastal oil-drilling and other issues. He has a staff of imperial policy-thinkers, left-over from the Clinton administration. He wants to intensify US military operations in Afg-stan. He is very much to the right of center.
He promises domestic programs to fix our infrastructure problems, but at the same time he is talking with warriors and militarists. He cannot have both! What he can do is to continue to trash the dollar and take purchasing power out of the savings of people who worked all their lives to accumulate a nest-egg in dollar instruments.
His skin is of no importance to me, but I am afraid he will skin me.
